Improvement in travelling-bags



@teiten tsts @anni @High WILLIAM WAKENSHAW, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T'O T. B.

PEDDIE, OFY SAME PLACE.

Letters lPatent No. 75,083, dated March 3, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN TRAVl-LLIN(ir-BAGS.`

T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM WAKNSUAW, of Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey have invented a new and-improved Fastening for Travelling-Bags; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, Awhich will enable others skilled in the art to make andluse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedrthereon.l

This invention relates to a new and improved fastening for the sides or ends of travelling-bags; andit consists of va'hool 1-,shaped jaw, pivoted t5 each end of the bag, or to` the sides ot' one part' of the frame of the bag,

and so eonstructedand arranged that, by depressing or shoving down the jaws, they will clamp bothfparts of v the frame at each side thereof, and hold the same firmly in contact, or in a closed state. In the accompanying sheet of drawingsh Figure 1 is aperspectlve view of a travelling-baghaving my invention applied to it.

Figure 2, a detached perspective view of one of the fastenings.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts. Y

A represents a travelling-bag, constructed in the usual way, and provided with the ordinary frame, composed of two parts, B C, one part, C, fitting within the other part, B, and connected at their lower ends by a joint at the peinta. Theseiparts being all old and well'known, do not require a special description.

To each side of the` part B of the frame of the bag-there is attached, by a pivot or screw, a, fastening, D, the -form of which is clearly shown in fig. 2. It has its main portion, b, composed of three sides of -a quadrangle, and the other portion, c,c onsists of a straight shank or bar, extending about at right angles from' one side of b, the screw or pivot passing through the outer end of e, into the part B ofthe bag-frame. When these fastenings are drawn or raised upward, as shown in red in iig. l, the' portion of the same will not clamp the two parts B C of the bag-frame, and said parts may be opened and closed freely, ,if the central top catch or lock, if one be used, is unfastened or unlocked; but, by shovingdown thefastenings D, the portions b will catch over and clamp the two parts B C, as shown in'hlack in ig. 1, andfirmly hold the parts B C ofthe bag-frame together, eiectually preventing them fom springing apart under-thepressureof vthe contents of the bag.

The advantage of this invention consists in the facility with whclrthe fastonings may be adjusted to clamp the two parts of the frame together, or to release them. It may he done with one hand, inra m'pment of time, and without any exertion or trouble. I design to have the fastenings constructed of brass, as that would be the preferable material; other metals, however, may be used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to`secu`r`e by Letters Patent-- The fastenings D D, constructed of the form and applied to thebag in the manner substantially as shown and described.

WM. WAKENSHAW.

Witnesses:

D. CAHILL, A. LU WILLrAMs. 

